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CNC Machining GeckoDrive Heatsink/Mount Plate

Machining a mounting plate for my geckodrive stepper drivers, used in my Sieg X3 CNC conversion.

Tags: Sieg X3 CNC GeckoDrive Mounting Plate

Big Ostentatious Power Switch - REV1

Using my CNC milling machine to try out an idea for a custom power button with an xbox-esque glowing power ring. Also a valuable lesson in learing to spell "ostentatious!" Sigh.

Tags: Sieg X3 Linux EMC2 CNC

X3/EMC2 Y Axis Debugging #2

Poor man's DRO, showing the problems I'm seeing on Y.

Tags: MVI 0165

X3/EMC2 Y Axis Issue Debugging #1

Trying to debug the Y axis on my CNC mill.

Tags: MVI 0158

Sieg X3 / PROMiCA CNC Conversion / Linux EMC2 - First run!

First test run of my promica-converted Sieg X3 machine, running the test G-Code from EMC2 and machining a piece of Corian.

Tags: firstcnc

L4D Costume Prop - fake pipe bomb with blinking/beeping

This is a costume prop I created for my "Bill" character L4D costume. It simulates the beeping/blinking of the pipe bomb from the video game using a small microcontroller circuit and a little bit of firmware.

Tags: l4d left4dead bill pipe bomb prop costume halloween

Linux EMC2 XYZ stepper test

Testing X, Y and Z steppers under Linux EMC2 control, using PCI parallel port, geckodrive G203V drives, STP-MTRH-23079 NEMA23 steppers. This will be outfitted on a Sieg X3 milling machine soon.

Tags: EMC2 GeckoDrive G203V Sieg X3 CNC